%0 Journal Article
%T Videoassisted mitral valve replacement
%A Miguel ¨¢ngel Carrasco Molina
%A Osvaldo Vald¨¦s Dupeir¨®n
%A Fausto Rodr¨ªguez Salgueiro
%A Aylen P¨¦rez Barreda
%J Revista Cubana de Cardiolog¨ªa y Cirug¨ªa Cardiovascular
%D 2012
%I ECIMED
%X The surgery of the mitral valve has been a great challenge since the beginnings of the cardiovascular surgery, the surgical options to board this valverange from percutaneous methods to dilate it, till the substitution for a prosthetic heart valve through a median sternotomy. In our country the mitral valvesubstitution is done through the median sternotomy and right thoracotomy methods. The case of a 56 year-old feminine patient, with antecedents ofsevere, symptomatic mitral insufficiency, with indication of mitral valve substitution that was intervened with a novel technique of minimum access videoassisted,is presented.
%K Mitral valve substitution
%K video-assisted
%K cardiovascular surgery.
%U http://www.revcardiologia.sld.cu/index.php/revcardiologia/article/view/83/222